IT Management

Steve Jobs’ June iCloud announcement (see: http://www.apple.com/icloud, http://www.usatoday.com/money/smallbusiness/columnist/abrams/2011-06-30-abdams-small-business-cloud_n.htm) and Microsoft’s prolific “To the Cloud” TV commercials have made “cloud computing” a household concept. However, there’s still much confusion about what cloud computing is and what it means to adopt it. While recent surveys show most IT organizations understand the mainframe should play a strategic role in their enterprise cloud strategy, they haven’t identified all the ways it can bolster competitive advantage…